Trump puts loyalist previously sent to investigate MI6’s Christopher Steele in key Pentagon position
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Trump puts loyalist previously sent to investigate MI6’s Christopher Steele in key Pentagon position

The Independent  

A Republican congressman’s staffer who was sent to London to “investigate” MI6 officer Christopher Steele over his dossier on Donald Trump has been appointed to a key role in an unprecedented takeover of the Pentagon by the president’s team. Patel, who joined from the National Security Council, had worked for congressman Devin Nunes, who had to step down at one stage as the chairperson of House Intelligence Affairs Committee, after being exposed over secret contacts with the White House over the investigation into Trump’s Russian connections. The undersecretary of defence for intelligence, Vice Admiral Joseph Kernan, a former navy Seal, has been replaced by Ezra Cohen-Warnick, a former aide to Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser who was convicted of perjury in the investigation by the special counsel Robert Mueller. Fiona Hill, a former senior National Security Council official specialising in Russian and European affairs, told a house hearing that “Patel was improperly becoming involved in Ukraine policy and was sending information to Mr Trump”.

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LA Times  

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Kash Patel would be "extremely dangerous" as FBI director, former agent says

Salon  

A former FBI special agent has said right-wing loyalist Kash Patel would do "major damage" if he President-elect Donald Trump selects him to lead the bureau. “Putting someone like Kash Patel in the position of director of the FBI is, I believe, extremely, extremely dangerous,” Daniel Brunner, a former FBI agent, told CNN on Sunday. Brunner warned that Patel’s lack …

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Hindustan Times  

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